WHOOP Founder Will Ahmed: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company
My First Million
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šļø 26 January 2023
ā±ļø 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | if you're good at sleeping, it decreases every form of potential disease that you can have. |
| 0:05.3 | Like it is the magic pill. So I don't agree with your tweet. |
| 0:09.3 | But I respect that. I like the tweet. |
| 0:12.5 | Cause I'm gonna be a creep. |
| 0:25.8 | All right. Do you know what you're getting into or what? |
| 0:27.8 | I've read the briefing and I'm a big fan of the podcast. So ready for you. |
| 0:32.5 | All right. So what's been a little bit of time kind of getting to know you because you've |
| 0:36.6 | done a lot of amazing things. Yeah, absolutely. Will Ahmed. I grew up on North Shore Blong Island. |
| 0:42.4 | I was a kid. I was kind of osin to sports and exercise. I ended up going to Harvard and playing |
| 0:48.8 | squash in school. And I was a competitive college athlete. And I felt like I didn't really know what |
| 0:54.7 | I was doing to my body while I was training as an athlete. So that got me very interested in |
| 0:58.8 | physiology. Did a ton of physiology research as a student read something like 500 medical papers |
| 1:04.9 | and started to conceive of this idea of how you could continuously measure the human body. |
| 1:09.7 | And the idea was initially around athletic performance. But broadly, I felt like there would be |
| 1:14.8 | ways to continuously measure the human body for all sorts of health implications. And you know, |
| 1:20.4 | what became is sort of a curiosity ultimately turned into a very long research paper that I wrote |
| 1:26.6 | and then ultimately founding a company. This was what would have been when I was 21, 22 years old |
| 1:31.8 | as a senior at Harvard. And then for the last 10 plus years or so, I've been I've been building |
| 1:37.1 | this this business, the business who builds wearable technology really to improve people's health. |
| 1:42.8 | We started with the best athletes in the world and over time have grown to work with a large |
| 1:47.9 | consumer population. And it's a really exciting time to be building that technology. |
| 1:52.8 | Okay. So yeah, you're the CEO of and founder of whoop if people have seen it to whoop band. You've |
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